# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-terry-sanford
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:51:04.664Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-terry-sanford"
name: "Edward Terry Sanford"
slug: "edward-terry-sanford"
description: "Edward Terry Sanford was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1923 until his death in 1930. Prior to his nomination to the high court, Sanford served as a United States Assistant Attorney General under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1905 to 1907, and as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee from 1908 to 1923. As of January 2026, he is the last sitting district court judge to be elevated directly to the Supreme Court."
tagline: "US Supreme Court justice from 1923 to 1930"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Justice_Edward_Terry_Sanford.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1865-07-23"
deathDate: "1930-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.06
  momentum:             5.945945945945946
  historical:           6.353673333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Edward Terry Sanford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إدوارد تيري سانفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ادوارد تيرى سانفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Terry_Sanford"
    title: "Edward Terry Sanford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Terry_Sanford"
    title: "Edward Terry Sanford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%93%D7%95%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%93_%D7%A1%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%93"
    title: "אדוארד סנפורד"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Terry_Sanford"
    title: "Edward Terry Sanford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1293854"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump